OpenBSD 5.2 runs great on this machine. I love it. Only thing I noticed that file copying or transferring from sdcard or usb stick to hard drive is much slower compare to running FreeBSD, Linux or Windows.
Is that due to the encryption?

This particular dmesg output was from your initial installation (RAMDISK_CD kernel) and then your first boot only (GENERIC.MP kernel), and does not show any encryption hardware, nor any use of the softraid(4) CRYPTO discipline.

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The dmesg shows USB connectivity hardware with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0, via uhci(4) and ehci(4) drivers. But there is no USB mass storage device attachment in this particular dmesg.

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The dmesg shows attachment of a 16GB SD card via the sdmmc(4) driver, but does not show any issues with it.

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The dmesg shows a fatal firmware error for your Intel Wireless driver, iwn(4). Look in /etc/firmware for iwn-* files; if none are seen, firmware has not been installed. This appears to be the device's only NIC. If that's the case, fw_update(1) will not be usable and you will need to obtain the firmware manually from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware...are-5.6.p0.tgz and install it using pkg_add(1).

The dmesg shows attachment of a 16GB SD card via the sdmmc(4) driver, but does not show any issues with it.

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That is my point. Why is transfer speed from this sdcard or even usb stick much
slower compare other operating systems used on this same laptop.
I am not complaining, just curious why.

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The dmesg shows a fatal firmware error for your Intel Wireless driver, iwn(4). Look in /etc/firmware for iwn-* files; if none are seen, firmware has not been installed. This appears to be the device's only NIC. If that's the case, fw_update(1) will not be usable and you will need to obtain the firmware manually from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware...are-5.6.p0.tgz and install it using pkg_add(1).

My wifi works great. First thing that I installed was iwn-firmware-5.6p0.tgz.

A USB stick has not has not been attached since installation, according to your dmesg.

A quick look through misc@ and tech@ archives for any discussion of the sdmmc driver or your Intel 82801H I/O controller found no one else reporting a performance issue.

You might consider posting your question to the misc@ mailing list. If so, please read http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html before posting -- your Email must be plain text, trimmed to less than 80 character lines, without any attachments, and should include your dmesg in-line. You may elect to trim it to the point of the most recent boot, for ease of review. If you wish assistance with USB performance, be sure your dmesg includes a history of USB stick attachment.

jggimi
Thanks for the info on the mailing list. I will try that.
I have not use USB stick on this install, but have used in the past on same machine with same OpenBSD 5.2 AMD64 (release)

Just for the info to copy files (around 180 MB) form sdcard to my HD takes about 40 - 45 seconds on OpenBSD and about 10 -12 seconds on FreeBSD, Linux, Windows...strange. I have not timed it with a stopwatch but est. times are pretty close. There is a noticeable difference.

Side note : Absolute OpenBSD (2nd edition) is coming out soon (hopefully)..
paperback only, I am pre-ordering it and also pre-ordering OpenBSD 5.3 official discs set.